Fare-box.



G. B. KOHLER.

FARE BOX.

APPLICATION FILED DEC. 7, 1910.

Patented July 29,1913.

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FARE BOX.

APPLICATION FILED DEC. 7, 1910.

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G B. KOHLER.

FARE BOX.

APPLICATION FILED DEC. 7, 1910.

Patented July 29, 1913.

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G. B. KOHLER.

Patented July 29, 1913.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE. Y

GEORGE B. KOHLER, OF PHILADELPHIA, IENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR TO THE J. G.

BRILL COMPANY, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIApA CORPORATION OF PENN-SYLVANIA.

FARE-BOX.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE B.'KoHLER, a citizen of the United States,residing in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, have invented certainImprovements in Fare-Boxes, of which the followin is a specification.

My invention relates to certain improvements in fare boxes in which thecoins are selected and registered separately.

One object of In invention is to improve the construction 0 this type offare box so that the fares will be accurately registered and the coinitself will act as the means for imparting movement to the registeringmechanism.

A further object of the invention is to provide means whereby the onecent pieces will be collected until five or other proper numbers aredroppedin the fare box before the registering mechanism willbe actuated.

A still further object of the invention is to prevent any coin greaterthan a ten cent piece passing into the fare box.

In the accompanying drawings :F igure' 1, is a longitudinal sectionalview of my improved fare box; Fig. 2, is a transverse sectional view onthe line 2-2, Fig. 1; Fig. 3, is a plan view of the fare receivingsection; Fig. 4, is a sectional plan view on the line 44 Fig. 1; Fig. 5,is a sectional plan view on the line 5-5 Fig. 1; Fig. 6, is a viewillustratinga detail of the invention; Fig. 7, is a perspective view ofthe fare receiving drawer and its slide; Fig. 8, is a transversesectional view on the line 88 Fig. 4; Fig. 9, is a sectional view on theline 99 Fig. 4; Fig. 10, is a sectional view on the line 1010 Fig. 4;Fig. 11, is a per spective view showing the discharging lever for theone cent pieces; Fig. 12,is a detached perspective view of the hopperandslide way; Fig. 13, is a sectional view on the line 13-13 Fig. 12; Fig.14, is a sectional view on the line 1414 Fig. 12, and Fig. 15, is asectional view on the line 1515 Fig. 12.

A is the body of the fare box having a fare receiving section A and adrawer or compartment A at the bottom for the reception of coins afterthey have passed through the mechanism for actuating the register. Thefare receiving section has glass sides a-a and inclined deflectors a.Above the deflectors is a cap plate B, Fig. 3, having four funnel shapedopenings 6, in

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed December 7, 1910. Serial No. 596,034.

retained on the cap plate.

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the present instance. These openings are of such a diameter that only aten cent piece, a five cent piece and a one cent piece will passthroughthe openings. This cap B forms the top plate for the farereceiving section A and is secured by corner bolts 6'.

It will be noticed that the partition I)? separating the severalopenings is low in comparisonwith the sides so that if a number of coinsare'placed on the cap plate B the smaller ones will find their waythrough the openings while the larger ones will be Furthermore, thisprevents manipulating the coin after it passes through the cap plate asthe openings are comparatively small.

C is a platform at the base of the fare receiving section A. Thisplatform in the present instance is mounted on a rock shaft 0 actuatedby a push rod 0 projecting through the casing of the fare box asillustrated in Fig. 1; the push rod being connected to an.

by pushing down on'the rod 0, after which on operating a lever theseveral coins will be distributed and registered.

Directly under the fare receiving sections A is a hopper D havinginclined sides 03 and d; the plate forming the sides 0? extends past theend of the plate forming the sides d. On the side d is an inclinedchannel forming the forward end of the inclined way E in which are theopenings 6, e, e' for the passage of the different coins. Arranged toslide in the hopper D is a push plate D having a quadrangular opening 01in the present instance. This push plate is given a reciprocatingmovement in the direction of the double arrow Fig. 12, and picks up thecoins in the hopper and drops them into the inclined channel of the wayE.

They roll down this way and passthrough their respective openings intothe tube E, E and E respectively. Thus, by operating the slide severaltimes all the coins in the hopper will be selected andwill pass to theirparticular tubes. attached to theqinclined way and communioate with theopenings 6, e, 6 respectively. The vertical sections of these tubestermi- The tubes E, E E are nate at a transverse partition plate Fseparating the fare receptacle A from the body of the fare box.

The tube E, in the present instance, is of such a size as to receivefive cent pieces; the tube E is of a size to receive only one centpieces and the tube E receives only ten cent pieces.

I will describe the mechanism first in connection with the means forallowing a five cent piece to pass into the cash receptacle and themeans for-registering the same.

I is a disk having notches z of a size to accommodate a five cent piece.These notches are so shaped that about one third of the coin within thenotch projects beyond the edge of the disk so as to actuate theregisterin mechanism. The disk is mounted on a shaft 1 adapted tosuitable bearings in the partition F and on the upper end of this shaftis a ratchet wheel i, having, in the present instance, four teethcorresponding with the four notches in the disk. Mounted loosely on theshaft is a, lever I having a pawl 71 which engages the teeth of theratchet wheel 71. A spring carried by the lever and connected to an armon the pawl tends to-hold the pawl in contact with the ratchet wheel. Onthe reciprocation of the lever P, the disk I will be moved a one-.quarter turn.

In order to hold the disk I in position, I provide a detent roller Jmounted on an arm K pivoted to the plate F. A spring'lc tends to holdthe roller against the disk; the roller resting in one of the notches ofthe disk, preventing it from being jolted out of alinement, but theroller will readily yield when pressure is applied to turn the disk.

In the plate F is an opening j, Figs. 5 and .10, through which the coinpasses to the fare receptacle A and when the coin travels from the mouthof the tube E to the opening f it passes the end of a lever N, which ispivoted at n to a frame secured to the casing and on the end of thislever in line with the coin is preferably mounted a roller 91.

The other end ofthe leverN is connected to a rocker N having a pawl 41.which engages a ratchet wheel m on a shaft M having a bevel wheel-mwhich meshes with a bevel wheel p on a vertical shaft P which is gearedto the shaft P of the register Q. This register may be made in anyordinary manner common to this type of apparatus.

In the case in front of the register is a glazed opening a through whichthe numbers of the register can be readily seen from the outside of thebox. The parts are so proportioned that the register will be turned eachtlme to register and indicate five or ten cents.

S is the disk having notches which aline with the tube E for the onecent pieces and is made similar to the disk I and 1s engaged weaves bythe detent roller .I mounted on a spring controlled lever K. This diskis mounted on a shaft S similar to the shaft 1 and has a four toothedratchet Wheel 8, in the present instance, which is engaged by a pawl son the lever S The opening f in the plate is of a depth to hold four onecent pieces and is closed at the bottom by flanges f leaving a space forthe travel of-the end of the ejecting lever U pivoted at it, which whenactuated pushes the four one cent pieces off of thefiange's through theopening f under the plate F. The lever U is actuated by a bar .14 havingan arm a which contact-s with the short arm of the lever U. The bar isconnected to one arm of a lever 10 which is pivoted to the plate F andis in the path of the fifth one cent piece which travels over the anddrops through the hole F. The coin in its travel contacts with a roller'0 on a lever V, which in turn actuates a rocker V having a pawl '0which engages a ratchet wheel m on the shaft M and moves the-register,the required distance.

T is a disk mounted on the shaft T and having notches t which are ofsuch a size as to receive a ten cent piece. These notches aline with thetube E and the opening f in the plate E. The shaft T has a ratchet wheelt which is engaged by the pawl t 011 the arm T and there is a springtending to hold the pawl in contact with the ratchet wheel. Thisconstruction is similar to the construction on the other shafts I and S.A detent Wheel J engages the notches t in the disk T and this detentwheel is mounted ion a disk-controlled lever K similar to the otherlevers KK.

A ten cent piece as it travels through the tube E and through theopening f in the plate F contacts with a roller w on an arm W pivoted tothe frame and this arm actuates a rocker W carrying a spring pawl 10which engages a ratchet wheel on on the shaft M, which is geared to theshaft M,

'clearly indicated in Fig. 1; the gearing be other four ing two to oneso as to move the registering mechanism the proper distance to indicateten cents.

In order to actuate the several mechanisms, I connect the levers 1 ,3and T to a common bar L and this bar in turn is connected by a link L toone arm of the hand lever Q pivoted 'at q to a bearing on the outside ofthe-casing A of the fare box. The let'er extends through an opening inthe fare box and is connected to the link as above described.

The lever Q is provided with a suitable handle so that the operator canreadily reciprocate it to impart motion to the bar L and to the severallevers carrying the pawls. In order to prevent the disks moving backwardafter the pawls move them forward and after the bar L is at rest in theposition illustrated in Fig. 4, I provide the bar with projections ywhich contact with the teeth of the detent ratchet wheels 3 on theshafts I, S and T. The lever Q also actuates the reciprocating slide Dfor ejecting the coins from the, hopper D. The lever, in thisinstance,passes through a slot in aslide Z adapted to ways on the insideof the casing ,of the fare box and in this slide is a pin 2 which entersone arm of a bell crank lever D the other arm of the lever beingattached to the slide as clearly indicated in Fig. 6, so that on thereciprocation of the lever Q, the slide D will be moved, reciprocatingthe hopper D.

2 is a series of teeth on the slide Z with which a click device 2engages so as to prevent the return movement of the slide and the leverQ after the .lever has once been moved forward and before it has madeits full movement, thus it is impossible for the disks to be only givena partial movement. They must be moved in the present instance a quarterturn so as to carry a coin from the tube to the discharage opening inthe partition F.

The operation of the fare box is as fidlows :The fare box is usuallylocated on the rear platformof a passenger car so that persons enteringthe car will place their fares in the box as they pass from the platforminto the body of the car. The proper amount is supposed to be depositedin the fare box. In the present instance a five cent piece or five onecent pieces can be deposited in the box for a single fare, or aten centpiece, two five cent pieces or ten one cent pieces in payment of twofares and so on ad infinitum. The opening in the top plate, however, isso proportioned that nothing higher than a ten centpiece will bereceived and if a passenger on entering a car has no coin of a smallerdenomination thana twenty-five cent piece, he will have to have itchanged by the conductor so as to deposit the proper amount in the box.The coins may accumulate in the bottom of the receiving section A andthe conductor candischarge them all at the same time into the hopper Dor one fare can be discharged at a time, if desired. Then byreciprocating the hand lever Q the coins are lifted from the hopper bythe slide and rolled down the inclined edge of the slide on to theinclined slide way and pass through their respective openings into thetubes and rest in posit-ion so that on the reciprocation of'the leverthe disks will carry a single coin at a time from the mouth of a tube tothe discharge opening in the partition and as it passes a certain pointthe coin itself will actuate the registering mechanism and will passinto the fare receptacle.

tion on the movement of the disk and in the case of five one cent piecesthe coins accumulate in the pocket or opening before .they aredischarged into the receptacle and are discharged by the fifth coinwhich actuates the register and simultaneously with the movement of theregister a lever is actuated to push the four one cent pieces into thefare receptacle.

In the present instance the fare receptacle is in the form of apartitioned drawer A Fig. 7, which can be opened by the conductor asthis particular fare box is only for the purpose of registering thefare, the conductor can use the money collected in making change. Inorder to prevent any one cent piece dropping back of the drawer when itis pulled out, I provide a slide a which is moved forward by the back ofthe drawer coming in contact with a rojecting lip a on the slide,causing the side to close the mouth of the hopper A The drawer whenclosed comes in contact with a lip a at the rear of the slide, causingit to be moved so that its opening is in line with the mouth of thehopper.

In some instances, the drawer may be locked when the conductor is notrequired Itoo handle the money passing through the In some instances itmay be necessary to provide means for preventin the one cent pieces frombeing'shifted accldentally from the. receptacle in the partition plate F'formed by the flanges f and Iprovide a spring detent arm's whichextends across the path of the coins so that they cannot be accidentallyshifted from the receptacle and drop through the opening f, butthespringis not suflicient to prevent the coins from passing through the openingf when pushed by the lever U. In order to hold the coins in place in thereceptacle I provide an arm a which bears upon the face of the top coin,but this arm is so shaped as not to interfere with the coin passingfreely under it when the fifth coin travels over the receptacle and isdischarged from the hole' f 1 Iclaim: l. The coinbinationin a fare box,of a fare receiving section, a hopper V-shaped in cross section, areciprocating slide adapted to travel over one of the surfaces of thehopper, an inclined way in the hopper back of the slide, so that when acoin is selected by the slide it will roll down the inclined way, saidway having an opening beyond the hopper, a tube communicating with theopening, an intermittently moving disk having notches for the receptionof the coins, a partition over which the disk travels, said partitionhaving a discharge opening through which the coin drops as it is movedfrom the tube, registering mechanism, and means in the path of the coin,as it is carried by the disk, for actuating the registering mechanism.

2. The combination in a fare box, of a casing, a fare receiving section,a discharge platform for discharging the fares from the fare receivingsection into the body of the box, a hopper, V-shaped in cross section,and mounted under the fare receptacle, a reciprocating slide having itsupper edge beveled to engage coins within the fare box, an inclined waycommunicating with one end of the hopper, one wall of the slidewayhaving two or more openings, one opening being of a different dimensionthan the other, tubes communicating with the several openings, apartition, notched disks at each tube so arranged that a coin passingthrougha particular tube will pass into a notch in the disk, means forintermittently rotating the disks, said partition having openingsthrough which the coins pass when they are carried away from the mouthof the tube, registering mechanism and means in the path of the coins,as they are carried by the disks, for'actuating the registeringmechanism.

3. The combination in a fare box, of a casing, means for dischargingfares into the body of the fare box, a hopper under the dischargeopening V-shaped in cross section, a reciprocating slide for lifting thecoins within the fare box, an inclined way extending into the hopper andin line with the inclined edge of the slide When in the raised positionso that the coin will pass from the slide onto the inclined way, onewall of the inclined way having a series of openings, said openingsbeing of different dimensions to accommodate coins of different sizes, atube communicating with each opening, 7 an intermittently rotating diskmounted at the mouthof each tube, each disk being notched to receive acoin of a given size, a partition below the disk, the partition havingan opening at each disk, a single register, and means in the path of thecoin, as it is carried by a disk, for actuating the registeringmechanism, so that the coins are selected and registered as they passthrough the fare box. a

4. The combination in a fare box, of a hopper V-shaped in cross section,an inclined way communicating with the hopper, means for dischargingfares into one end of the hopper, a slide mounted so as to pass throughthe hopper at the point where the two sides join, means forreciprocating the slide so as to lift coins from the hopper and directthem into the inclined way, one

wall of the inclined way having a series of openings differing indimensions so as 'to allow coins of a given size to pass through theopenings, tubes communicating with each of said openings, a partitionplate, havmg an opening some distance from the mouth of each tube, anintermittently r0- tating disk notched to receive coins from the tubesand transfer them to the openings in the partition, pawl and ratchetmechanism for rotating the said disks, levers carrying the pawls, a barcommon to all the levers, a hand lever for reciprocating the bar and foractuating the selecting slide, registerlng mechanism, and means in thepath of the coin for actuating the registering mechanism.

5. The combination in a fare box, of a slide, a hopper, V-shaped incross section, within the casing, a movable platform for dischargingfares into the hopper, an mclincd way communicating with one end of thehopper, a reciprocating slide adapted to move within the hopper andselect coins from the hopper and transfer them to the inclined way, onewall of the inclined way having a series of openings dlifering in size,

and a tube communicating with each opening, a partition plate at whichthe tubes terminate, a notched disk for each tube, the

notches being arranged so as to aline with the mouth of the tubes,the'partition having a series of openings, means for intermittentlyrotating the disks so as to shift a coin from the mouth of a tube to oneof said openings, shafts upon which the disks are mounted, a ratchetwheel mounted on each shaft, a lever mounted loosely on each shaft and apawl carried by each lever and engaging the ratchet wheel, -a bar commonto all of the levers and having projections, with a detent wheel on eachshaft with which the projections engage so as to pre vent the disksmoving backward, an operating lever projecting from the. casing of thefare box, and connected to the bar for actuating the levers in unison, aregistering mechanism and actuating means for the registering mechanismin the path of the coins as they are carried by the disks from theirtubes to the discharge openings.

6. The combination in a fare box of a tube into which the-coins pass, anotched disk, a shaft on which the notched disk is mounted, the notchesof the disk being at the sides'to receive the coins passing through thetube, a plate having a discharge opening through which the coins passafter they have been carried by the disks from the tube, registeringmechanism, a shaft geared to the registering mechanism, a ratchet wheelon the shaft, a rocker loose on the shaft and carrying a pawl engagingthe ratchet wheel, a lever for actuating the rocker, one arm of thelever being in the path'of the coin as it is transferred from the tubeto the discharge opening.

7. The combination in a fare box, of a casing, a fare receiving section,a hopper on the fare receiving section, said hopper being V-shaped incross section, an inclined way projecting from one side of the hopper, adischarge platform for discharging a coin from the receiving sectioninto the hopper, a reciprocating slide for selecting a coin from thehopper and directing it into the in- .clined way, the inclined wayhaving three openings of diiferent dimensions, a tube communicating witheach of said openings, a partition plate separating the fare receptaclein the bottom of the box from the body of the box, the partition havingthree openings some distance from each tube, intermittently rotatingdisks having notches to receive the coins and transfer them from thetube to the opening in the partition, means for intermittentlyreciprocating the disks, a hand lever for actuating said means,

registering mechanism, a rotating shaft geared to said registeringmechanism, levers having one arm in the path of the coin carried by thedisks, rockers actuated by the levers, a pawl on each rocker, and aratchet,

wheel on the shaft with which the pawls engage, means for collecting aseries of coins in one of the openings in thevpartition until they reacha given number, and means actuated by a coin carried by the disk fordischarging the coins.

8. The combination in a fare box, of a hopper within the box, a farereceiving section, means for discharging a coin from the fare receiving.section, said hopper being V-shapedin cross section, a reciprocatingslide entering the hopper at the bottom and arranged to travel over oneof the inclined slides, an inclined way extending into the hopper andarranged so that when the coin is raised by the slide it will pass fromthe slide onto the inclined way, said inclined way having a series ofopenings, tubes communicating with the openings, an intermittent-1yrotating disk for discharging coins from the tubes, means forintermittently operating the disks, an operating lever projectingthrough the walls of the fare box and connected to the operatingmechanism for the disks and with the means for engaging thereciprocating slide. a

9. The combination in a fare box, 'of a fare receiving section, apivoted discharge plat-form at the base of said section, a push rodprojecting through the casing for turning thecplatform on its pivot todischarge the coin into the box, a hopper within the box and under thefare receiving section, said hopper being V-shaped in cross section, areciprocating slide entering the hopper at the bottom and adapted tolift the coin against one side of the hopper, the upper end of the slidehaving a quadrangular opening, an inclined way communicating with oneend of the hopper and extending back of the slide so that the coinselected by the c slide will pass onto the inclined way, the

inclined way having a series of openings in of the to one wall, saidopenings being of different dimensions to receive coins of differentsizes, tubes communicating with the said openings, intermittentlyrotating notched disks or transferring the coins from the tubes,registering mechanism and means for actuating said registering mechanismoperated by the direct action of the coins as they pass from the tubes,twoof said mechanisms movin the register a given distance and the thirdmechanism moving the register twice the distance to register coins ofdifferent dimensions.

fare receiving section, a pivoted discharge platform, a hopper intowhich the'fare is discharged, an inclined way communicating with thehopper, said inclined way having a series of openings diifering in size,and throughwhich the coins pass as they travel down the inclined way, atube connecting with each opening, a partition, a rotating disk at themouth of each tube mounted above the partition, said ,disks havingnotches for the reception of the coing, the partition having dischargeopenings some distance from the mouth of the tube, so that the coin willbe carried from the tube to the discharge opening; registeringmechanism, and means for actuating the registering mechanism acted uponby the coins as they are carried from the tube to the discharge opening;a receptacle forming-part of the discharge opening from one-of the disksin which a series of coins are collected, said partition having a seconddischarge opening some distance from the receptacle, with means fordischarging all the coins from the receptacle actuated by a coincarriedfrom the receptacle by the discharging means and discharged through thesecond opening.

10. The combination in a fare box, of a 11. The combination in a farebox, of a 7 tube through which the fare passes, a partition plate, areceptacle in the partition plate some distance from the mouth of thetube,

said receptacle being capable of holding several coins, a notched diskfor carrying coins from the tube to the receptacle, a pivoted arm fordischarging the ,coins' accumulated in the receptacle, means foroperating the arm actuated by a coin carried by the notched disk overthe receptacle when the said receptacle is filled with coins,registering mechanism, and means in the path of the coin as it iscarried by the disk for operating the registering mechanism.

12. The combination in 'a fare box, of a tube, a partition plate, areceptacle in said partition late some distance from the mouth be andarranged to hold a given number of coins, said partition plate having anopening beyond the said receptacle, an intermittently rotating diskhaving notches to receive 001118 and to convey them to said receptacleand, When the receptacle is full, to discharge the next coin through anopening beyond the receptacle, a spring finger lending to hold the coinsin said receptacle, a discharge lever acting to push the coins laterallyfrointhe receptacle in a direction opposite the movement of the rotatingdisk, a lever for actuating the discharge lever, said lever beinglocated between the receptacle and the opening in the partition plateand in the path of the coin as it passes the receptacle, the coin, afteractuating the lememes ver mechanism, being discharged through theopening in the partition plate, registering mechanism, and means in thepath of the 15 coin for actuating the registering mechanism.

In testimony whereof, it have signed my name to this specification, inthe presence of two subscribing Witnesses.

GEORGE B. KOHLER.

Witnesses:

WM. E. SHUPE, WM. A. BARR.

